Literary Elements Review

reference to a statement, person, place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture to another piece of literature

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

• idiom

• repetition

• exposition

• hyperbole

the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come

• foreshadowing

• onomatopoeia

• dialect

• parallel structure

Susie sings like the birds in the trees as it sounds so beautiful to me.

• point of view

• irony

• resolution

• simile

the sequence of events in a literary work

• point of view

• plot

• exposition

• falling action

What’s the writer’s message about a big idea, like life or human nature?

• characterization

• theme

• symbolism

• personification

What's the writer's attitude toward the subject called?

• mood

• tone

• theme

• metaphor

Restate the main points of the text in YOUR OWN WORDS.

• inferences
• plot
• resolution
• summary

Where will you most likely find the main idea, or theme, of an excerpt?

• at the beginning

• at the middle

• at the end